What Andrew Jarecki has said about Prison–industrial complex

2 quotes · 1 episode · Mar 27, 2026

Andrew Jarecki, American filmmaker and documentarian, director of The Jinx and co-director of The Alabama Solution, has been quoted on Prison–industrial complex 2 times in 1 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, most recently on March 27, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Jarecki argues that prison secrecy makes facilities function like black sites where abuse is inevitable when one group has total control over another.

    “because of the secrecy that surrounds prisons, we treat them sort of like black sites. There's no way for us to really look inside”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:13

  • Jarecki says the United States spends $116 billion a year on prisons, jails and parole with little accounting.

    “we're spending, you know, one hundred and sixteen billion dollars a year in the United States on prisons, jails, parole. That is an insane number”

    The Joe Rogan Experience: #2475 - Andrew Jarecki (Mar 27, 2026) · Listen from 1:50:24

Episodes

  • #2475 - Andrew Jarecki

    The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 27, 2026 · 2 h 47 min

    Filmmaker Andrew Jarecki tells Joe Rogan how he documented deaths, drugs and forced labor inside Alabama's prisons, and revisits his Robert Durst film The Jinx.

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